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I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
Journalist
Radio Personality
San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
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If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read Black and Brown, would be better off with recovery jobs.
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Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
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History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
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While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
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Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward.
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People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.
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If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
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George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
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As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
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African-American people adore President Obama.
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Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
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References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
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